Kim Reid

HAC Member Since: 2018
(707) 682-6575
http://KimARTandDesign.com

Kim Reid's lifetime interest in art began in childhood, then on to university studying fine art, art history and design.  Many years were invested in a large aircraft company as technical illustrator and graphic designer.
 
Her ever-expanding repertoire of watercolor paintings and limited edition prints are displayed in many local galleries and venues in Humboldt, the most popular collection being the redwood forests of the Pacific Northwest and Lost Coast. (KimARTandDesign.com)  She is working on a series of portraits of the most iconic ancient redwoods, for example: Luna, The Corkscrew Tree, Giant Tree, Big Tree and Big Red.  She wants to extend her gallery reach into Mendocino County.  Other works by Kim include euro castle history (CastleColors.com), ancestral villages and California Missions (MissionPaintings.com). Larger viewing of these portfolio images are available on these gallery websites. Capturing nature in landscapes and history has inspired all her painting collections. She is very glad to be showing and selling her work through Humboldt Artists Gallery in the Morris Graves Museum of Art.

Kim has created a series of relief sculptures called ReefLife. They are painted with acrylics and placed in plexi-glass boxes.

Steve Coppin

HAC Member Since: 2008
(707) 502-2279
http://www.stevecoppin.com

The visual arts have always been an important means of expression for me. One of my earliest art memories is of a 1st grade teacher's enthusiastic response to my crayon drawings. I was always drawing as a kid and in college, my area of interest was in drawing and printmaking. My formal education concluded with a degree in Art from Humboldt State University in 1973.

I worked at a community art center after graduating and have fond memories of the people I met and the experiences I had there. The next four years I worked as a letterpress printer in a small shop where I designed many of the jobs that I printed. I began my career as a freelance illustrator in 1981 when I moved to Seattle and made the rounds with a portfolio of newly created airbrush art. While working with advertising agencies, design studios and publishers, I illustrated a wide range of subjects and ideas which was a wonderful learning experience. It wasn’t unusual to meet with an art director in the afternoon and work the rest of the day and night on a project that was due first thing in the morning. When everything worked and the client was happy, it was very satisfying. In 1997, after watching the new work being created by computer artists, I began working with digital media and have never looked back. I’ve been very fortunate to have worked with many talented artists and design professionals in the Pacific Northwest and many large northwest and national corporations.

In 2006 I returned to Eureka on California’s beautiful north coast where I am originally from. In 2013, I moved once again to Crescent City, CA which is on the coast about 20 miles south of the California- Oregon border. I am now concentrating on my own art and am retired from commercial work. My studio is now centered around my iMac and iPad. I believe using computers and digital printers to produce art is a natural progression in fine art printmaking. I produce my own monoprints or limited edition prints on archival fine art paper with an eight color pigment inkjet printer. In addition to my art, I enjoy cycling and converting my rural yard into a redwood forest.

Regina Case

HAC Member Since: 1996
(707) 4421419
http://www.reginacase.com

Regina Case lives on the coast of Northern California. She has had solo exhibitions at Robert Allen Fine Art in San Francisco, Convergence Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and The Morris Graves Museum of Art in Eureka, California. Her paintings have been shown at Desert Art Collection, Palm Desert, California, D’Adamo/Woltz Gallery in Seattle, Rodger LaPelle Galleries in Philadelphia, Erlich Gallery in Marblehead, Massachusetts and others, resulting in their placement in hundreds of national and international collections.

"I paint what is around me every day; the cup of coffee, animals, river. By using unlikely combinations of elements or points of view, the images are shifted beyond everyday reality, investing them with heightened significance. Nature is pulled inside and rooms are opened to it. A cup of coffee in a daybreak livingroom and leaves blowing upriver in warm summer wind are interwoven: all things that carry the mind home, bringing life into quiet kitchens."

Pat Cahill

HAC Member Since: 2005
(707) 786-9321

Retiring from the field of education in 1998, I chose to take the journey into the world of the fine arts using watercolor as my choice of medium.Painting gives me a fresh and in-depth perspective while looking and people, places, objects and form.  I enjoy painting whatever catches my eye-be it the color, subject matter, or design.  The inspiration to paint comes from the continual challenge for personal and artistic growth. Our world is ever changing, and each painting is a record of a moment in time.  Whether preserving a local landscape, recording my travels, or capturing an interesting composition, I enjoying sharing with the viewer my interpretation and style through each piece of art I create.Locally I have exhibited and won awards at the Redwood Art Association show, Humboldt Co. Fair, have shown at The Ship’s Inn, Eureka, and was a partner in the Irish Roots show at the Ferndale Arts Gallery.I am a member of the Redwood Art Assn., Representational Art League and the Humboldt Arts Council.

Susan Bloch

707-499-3664
http://www.susanbloch.com

Carving the Human Condition in Glass

I sand-carve glass faces compelled by the internal and external energy of human interaction. Impressions of the interrelationship between the mind and consciousness guide my work. Noticing miraculous emotional, logical and spiritual beings whose perception of the world through individual kaleidoscopic lenses of sensations and knowledge captivates me.

Glass is the perfect material to highlight the human condition. Its fragility, translucence, and reflective qualities perfectly match human characteristics and by transmitting light through its surface illuminate human essence. The glass and mirror surfaces reflect and acknowledge viewers, assisting the art in becoming invitations, conversations or restorative places. Like a conversation, each piece starts with one concept, changes with each viewer and is open, variable and responsive. The clear spaces in the work invite viewers to visually step into the work and see themselves floating softly in the face of another.

Connecting the viewer to the art is a growing interest. In my piece titled, Topsy Turvy, upside down heads loom over a small globe where inside viewers also appear upside down. Our beautiful minds play tricks on us, make assumptions, and color our worlds with infinite ideas; a joy and challenge of humanity.

My work is quiet and reflective, yet offers surprises, changing with time, lighting and angle viewed. Additionally, it is a testimony to those people who uncover treasures while journeying through life’s hills and valleys.

Floyd Bettiga

HAC Member Since: 1997
7078220767

OCCUPATION          Professional Artist

ACADEMIC
BACKGROUND:
      Master of Arts Degree, 1966, Humboldt State University; Arcata, California
                                    1954-1955, Postgraduate study, Humboldt State University; Arcata, California
                                    Bachelor of Arts Degree, 1954, Humboldt State University; Arcata, California
                                    1950-1951, Santa Rosa Junior College; Santa Rosa, California
                                    1946-1950, Ferndale Union High School; Ferndale, California

TEACHING
EXPERIENCE:   
       1964-1993, Art Department, College of the Redwoods, Eureka, California (retired)
                                    1959-1964, Eureka High School; Eureka, California
                                    1958-1959, Jacobs Junior High School; Eureka, California
                                    1957-1958, Fontana Unified High School; Fontana, California

ART EXHIBITS:       Morris Graves Museum of Art; Eureka, California
(One-artist)                Candystick Studio; Ferndale, California
                                    Tuomala Gallery; Fort Bragg, California
                                    Carter House; Eureka, California
                                    College of the Redwoods; Eureka, California
                                    Jacksonville Gallery; Jacksonville, Oregon
                                    Humboldt Gallery; San Francisco, California
                                    Ingomar Gallery; Eureka, California
                                    Humboldt State University; Arcata, California
                                    Mezzanine Gallery; San Francisco, California 
                                    Gallery Rouge; Eureka, California

ART EXHIBITS:       Carter House; Eureka, California
(Group)                       Ankrum Gallery; Los Angeles, California
                                    Henry Galleries, University of Washington; Seattle, Washington
                                    College of the Redwoods; Eureka, California
                                    Humboldt Cultural Center; Eureka, California
                                    Redwoods Art Association Annual Exhibitons
                                    Percival Galleries; Des Moines, Iowa
                                    Humboldt State University; Arcata, California
                                    Gump’s Gallery; San Francisco, California
                                    Ingomar Gallery; Eureka, California
                                    Rouge Gallery; Medford, Oregon
                                    Crocker Art Gallery, “Northern California Artist”
                                    Phelan Awards Exhibition, California Palace of the Legion of Honor; San Francisco, California
                                    Crocker Art Gallery, Kinsley Annual Exhibition; Sacramento, California
                                    American House; Tubingen, Germany
                                    Museum of Art; Santa Barbara, California
                                    Morris Graves Museum of Art; Eureka, California

AWARDS/SPECIAL
RECOGNITION: 
     1989 Outstanding Alumni Award, Humboldt State University
                                    1976 Who’s Who in American Art
                                    1971, 1991 Humboldt Arts Council Award, presented annually to individuals who have made significant                                              long-term contributions to fostering the arts in Humboldt County.
                                    1977 KEET-TV Award, given in recognition of fund-raising activities supporting public television,                                              1975-1977

TRAVEL:                   Hawaii (8 trips 1978-1995)
                                    Singapore, Sri Lanka, India, China, and Hong Kong (1991)
                                    South Pacific, New Zealand, and Australia (1988)
                                    Guatemala (1973)
                                    Japan (1961)
                                    Mexico (1953)
                                    Europe (approximately 25 trips to Europe and North Africa from 1956 to 2003):  Germany, Austria,                                              Switzerland, France, Italy, Liechtenstein, Greece, Yugoslavia, England, Denmark, Norway,                                              Holland, Germany, Sweden, France, Spain, Morocco, Portugal, Ireland, and Belgium.

CURRENT
MEMBERSHIPS: 
    Redwoods Art Association
                                    Humboldt Arts Council 
                                    Humboldt State University Alumni
                                    Friends of the Clarke Museum; Eureka, California
                                    Marines’ Memorial Club; San Francisco, California
                                    Humboldt County Historical Society
                                    Jefferson Public Radio; Ashland, Oregon
                                    Humboldt Botanical Garden Foundation
                                    Westhaven Center For the Arts, California

MILITARY
SERVICE:    
             U.S. Army, February 1956-December 1957 (active duty in Europe)
                                    U.S. Army Reserve, 1957-1962
                                    Honorable Discharge; February 28, 1962

Glenn Berry

HAC Member Since: 1996

A founding father of Humboldt State University's Art Department and a nationally recognized painter, Glenn Berry is the creator of a distinctive and prevailing geometric style of painting in which faceless figures shift and explore the landscape, symbolizing the process rather than the end result. This retrospective highlights Berry’s career achievements and illustrates his unique style. A full color catalog will be available for purchase in the Museum Store. Glen Berry was born on February 27th, 1929 in Glendale, California. He received his BA from Pomona College in 1951 and his BFA and MFA from the Chicago Art Institute in 1956. That same year, Berry accepted a teaching position as a professor of art at Humboldt State University where he taught until 1981. Berry has had several one person shows, mostly within the county of Humboldt, as well as in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. He currently resides and works in Humboldt County. Over 30 of Glenn Berry's works are part of the Humboldt Arts Council Permanent Collection and are featured in both solo and group HAC exhibitions.

Born: February 27, 1929, Glendale, California

BA, Pomona College, Magna Cum Laude, 1951
Phi Beta Kappa
BFA, Chicago Art Institute, 1956
MFA, Chicago Art Institute, 1956
Professor of Art, Humboldt State University, 1956-1981

One Person Exhibitions:

Humboldt State University, 1957, 1965, 1970, 1975, 1992
Rockford College, Illinois, 1957
Humboldt Federal Gallery, Arcata, 1964
Ingomar Gallery, Eureka, 1966, 1968
Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles, 1970
Esther Bear Gallery, Santa Barbara, 1971
College of the Redwoods, Eureka, 1989
Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, 2000, 2005, 2010

Julia Bednar

HAC Member Since: 1994
(707)-443-4081

Creating art has been part of Julia's life since she was a small child. Nature is her inspiration; from the beauty of a flower or a landscape, to the power and majesty of a rock formation or the charm and mystery of a cat. She works in watercolor, acrylic or oil... painting in an impressionistic or realistic style, depending on the subject and her emotional response to it. Painting is her way of experiencing the beauty and wonder of nature and sharing that experience.

Julia serves on the Board of Directors of the Redwood Art Association and the Humboldt Arts Council and is active in several art groups, including the Representational Art League and the Fortuna Arts Council.

Julia maintains an art studio at her home where she lives with several cats, strays who came from the gully to live with her and who often become subjects of her paintings. Her studio is open by appointment during the year.

According to ancient Chinese philosophy...to make art good enough to enter people's hearts is called "making stone into gold". That has become Julia's mission and her mantra.